Cooking-range.



L E. GLOEKLER.

COQKING RANGE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2, I915.

' Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

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L-E. GLOEKLER.

COOKING RANGE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. z, 1915;.

1,165,004. Patented Dec. 21, 1915. 3 SFIEETS-SHEET 2- J. E. GLOEKLER.

COOKING RANGE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2, 19.15.

Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

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To all whom it may concern-.-

I JQHN EDWARD GLOEKLER, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

COOKING-RANGE.

Application filed February 2, 1915. Serial No. 5,757.

Be it known that ,1, JOHN EDWARD GLOEKLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cooking-Ranges, of-which the following is a specification. I

My present invention pertalns to cooking ranges.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a range designed more particularly formeat broili'ng purposes and embodying improved means for movingthe meat-toward and from the heating element and for adjustably fixing the meat at various 'dlstances from the said element, this in order that the meat may be readily positioned as be conveniently inspected by the chef, as occasion demands, and may be cooked fast or slow, according to its nature.

Another object of the invention is the provision in a range,-of a'heating element comprising a body of refractory material such as fire clay, and means for heating the same to a high degree;' the said body being calculated to give ofi' or radiate a steady or uniform volume of heat.

Another object is the'pro'vision in combination with a body of the'ldnd-stated provided with a serrated surface, of a burner constructed and arranged to throw a blast of flame and other productsof-.com-.

bustion against said surface; theserrated surface serving to retard the blast with a view to utilizing-all of the heat values, and

also'serving to increase the area of'the radiating surface of the body.

Another object is to so arrange one or more bodies of refractory material; and

. means for heating the same, relatiye'to an oven and flues, that heat and'iproducts of combustion, passin from .the saidbody or bodies will be utilized to advantage in the heating of the oven. a I

Another object is the provision of means for collecting and conveniently removing the drippings from the meat that is being broiled. Other advantageous characteristics of the invention will be fully understood from the following. description and claims when the same are read connection with the draw- Speeification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 21, 1915.

ings, accompanying and forming part of thlsspeclfication, in which:

F lgure 1 is a vertical section'of tion. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the range. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the range, taken in a plane at right-angles to Fig. 1.

Similar-numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The casing 1 of my novel range is open at a range constructed 1n accordance 'Wlth my 1nven-,

its front, as indicated by 2, and contains a hopper 3, designed to catch and concentrate the drippings from the meat that is-being broiled, and a sli'dable drawer 4: disposed 'under and adapted to receive drippings ing 2 are bodies 5 of fire clay or other suit- These bodies are able refractory material.

separated by ail-intervening vertical 'space r 6, and are provided at their under sides with ribs 7. These ribs extend continuously between the back and front portions of the casing and have abruptsflurfaces 8 at their outer "sides, designed to offer abutments to flames and products of combustion that are "discharged inwardly from points adjacent to the side "walls of the casing, as hereinafter specifically; pointed out. The ribs 7 materially increa'setheradiating surfaces of the bodies 5, and at the same time the abrupt outer sides of the said ribs serve to check the flames and other products of combustion from the burners 30 and retain the said. flames'and'iproducts of combustion in prox- .lmlty 'to the under-sides of the bodies 5 which promotes the quick and thorough heating thereof. Movable forwardly and rearwardly' in channel irons 9 is a meat support orv grid-iron 10, having a handle 11,

whereby it may be drawn outwardly from or pushed back into the position shown in r I The channel irons 9 with the support or grid-ironlO therein are designed to move up and down as a unit and to be retained in a horizontal position during such movements.

To the attainment of this end, vertical bars .12'are' fixed to anddepend from the channel irons 9, and brace'bar's 13 and'14="-are interposed between and fixed to said bars 12 and the channel irons 9. The bars-12 are movable vertically and suitably guided in their vertical movements, and connected with the lower portions of the bars are cables 15 which extend over and are connected to wheels 16, Figs. 1 and 3, fixed on a transverse shaft 18, and are provided at their opposite ends, with reference to the bars 12, with counterbalance weights 19, designed to assist in raising the grid-iron and to .faoilitate placing the same in the various positions desired. The transverse shaft 18 is also equipped with an arm 20, Figs. 2 and 3, arranged exterior ofthe casing. This arm 20 is connected through a link 21'to' a 'lever 22 which is arranged as shown so as to be conveniently manipulated 'by a chef standing in front of the range. Said lever 'is provided with a suitable detent '23 through the medium of which the lever may be fixed adjustably in various positions with respect to a fixed rack 24.

By virtue of the-construction described it will be manifest that the chef is enabled to move the grid-iron 10 and the meat thereon toward andfrom the bodies 5, and is also enabled to adjustablyvfix the grid-iron at various distances from the said bodies, and

is further enabled to bring the grid-iron and the meat thereon down sufficiently to enable him to conveniently inspect the state of the meat.

. tificial gassupply. Each pipe 31 is equipped At each side of the casing-are two burners 30, designed to be connected through a pipe 31 with a'suitable source of natural or arwith acut-off valve 32, and leading rom each pipe 31 is a pilot-light pipe 33,. the discharge end of which is arranged between a two of the burners 30. The connections of the pipes 33 with the pipes 31 are at points f between the valves 32 and the source of supply, and consequently gas will be supplied at all times to'the pilot-lightburners. Then when the valves 32 are open, the- 1 be heated. This is; desirable when a small portion of meat is to be heated or cooked myhand in presence of two subscribing witon one side of the grid-iron 10. v

Arranged above the-bodies 5 is the oven 40. This oven is provided with apertures 41 and 42 for the passage 'of heat, and. is sur- 1 rounded by flues' 43, designed to conduct products of combustion from the space 6 and the refractory bodies to an uptake 44.

fest that the products of combustion from the burners 30 as well as the heat given ofi by the bodies -5 will be carried around the oven and utilized to heat the same before they. are permittedto pass out through the uptake 44. I

It is to be noticed that when the handlever is released and moved in one direction the grid-iron, will gravitate proportionately to the movement of the hand-lever and take up, slack of the cables, while when the 'hand lever is moved in the opposite direction, the grid-iron will be positively raised through the medium of the transverse-shaft, the

wheels, the cables and the vertically-moving and separated by an intervening space 'locatedin the vertical center of therange 'and having continuous ribs at their sides adjacentjto the supporting means; said ribs havlng abrupt outer sides, burners extendmg thropgh opposite side walls of the casing and arranged to jet flames against said By virtue of this provision it will be maniabrupt sides of the ribs, pipes leading from a source of gas supply to said burners, valves in saidpipes, pilot-light pipes leading from said pipes, at points between the source of gas supply and the valves, to vpoints adjaf cent to the burners, whereby either body,-

alone, may be heated, and an oven arranged above and spaced from the said bodies and also spaced from the side walls and the top wall of the casing.

2. In a 'cooking' range, the combination of a casing, means in the casing for supporting substance to be cooked, horizontal bodies of refractory material arranged in the casing and separated by an intervening vertical space, means at opposite sides of the casing for heating the refractory bodies separately or in concert, and means whereby either heating means may be put in operation-to heat its respective refractory body, 7

independently of the other heating means.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set nesses. I

, JOHN EDWARD GLOEKLER.

Witnesses: l

C. H. RoBB,

A. P. JAsPERsoN. 

